August 16, 2010
Source: The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/opinion/17dalrymple.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=religion_and_belief
President Obama's eloquent endorsement on Friday of a planned Islamic cultural center near the World Trade Center, followed by his apparent retreat the next day, was just one of many paradoxes at the heart of the increasingly impassioned controversy.